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Copied the directions below. If it works for you go register an account and thank the guy who wrote it.

Update your phone to froyo 2.2 if you can. I don’t think its necessary.

Go to your dialer and enter
this line below
*#*#3214789650#*#*

You should now see your phones
menu(lbstestmode).
Select – Application Settings.
Check each setting and match
To what you see below.

Session Type = Tracking
Test Mode = S/W Test*Operation Session Mode = M S Based
Start Mode = Hot Start
GPS Plus = On
Dynamic Accuracy = On*
Accuracy = 100*
GPS Logging = Off

Go back once. This will bring you back to the main menu.
Now SELECT SUPL/CP

Match what you see here to the
settings you see on your phone.

Server FQDN Type
= Custom Configuration
Server = supl.google.com
Server Port = 7275
Secure Socket = On*
AGPS Mode = SUPL

Now go back until you see your dialer or home screen.

REBOOT YOUR PHONE!

He says to buy the GPS doctor app and also get the Settings Restore app from Samsung but I didn’t need to do that. This took my GPS lock from never to about 15-20 seconds.

Dan Hayward’s Blog.

Several topics are covered but he also goes into how to use Lucd’s vDS module for PowerCLI to get info you couldn’t get otherwise.

Some highlights:

Script to backup all VM Network info

Script to Export vDS config

Script to Export vSphere folder structure to CSV

And many more. The post I really needed is here. Go check it out.

To see if the partition type has changed:

1. Connect to an ESX host with access to the LUN as root.

2. Run “fdisk -lu” and locate the lun in question by the identifier. I had the ID ahead of time and was easier for me to do “fdisk -lu | grep lunid”

3. Look under the System column and it will tell you the partition type. If it is SFS that means it has been initialized by a windows machine.

4. Run “fdisk /dev/lunid”

5. Enter p to print the partition table and verify you have the right disk.

6. Enter t to set the type and enter fb as the type when prompted.

7. Enter w to write changes to the disk.

You may still have an issue with the block alignment being mangled by windows. To fix this:

1. Run “fdisk /dev/lunid”

2. Enter x for expert mode

3. Enter b for block alignment.

4. Enter 128 where prompted for the block alignment VMware expects.

5. Enter w to write changes to the disk.

After this, an esxcfg-rescan vmhba1 should make your datastore show back up. If not, hope you have good backups.

I work in an AD environment, powered by Windows Server 2003. When I received my new workstation loaded with Vista, I was able to join the domain and all was good. After 2 days of using it, I started receiving the “The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship” error when trying to log on to a domain account.

I searched around quite a bit and found the culprit. The guys that take care of the group policies have a Primary DNS suffix set that is different from the domain’s FQDN used when joining workstations. I’m not going to say whether that’s good or bad, it is what it is. Anyways, this name mismatch is the reason the domain is freaking out when I try to log in. The solution is quite simple:

1. Remove your computer from the domain the normal way on your workstation.

2. Reset your computer account in the domain (if you can’t do this, ask your admin to do it for you).

3. Right click “My Computer”, click “Properties”. Scroll down to the “Computer name, domain and workgroup settings” and click “Change Settings”.

4. Click the “Change” button.

5. Click the “More” button.

6. Enter what the GPO is assigning as the Primary DNS Suffix for this computer. Example: pc.ou.domain.com where your domain is ou.domain.com. You can get this by clicking “Start->Run” and type “rsop.msc”. Under “Computer Configuration” expand Administrative Templates->Network->DNS Client and double click on “Primary DNS Suffix”.

7. Uncheck “Change primary DNS suffix when domain membership changes”.

8. Reboot.

9. Rejoin the domain.

If all goes well you shouldn’t see the error again. I have seen where you will need to set the Primary DNS suffix in step 6 again after joining the domain. After doing this, everything worked fine.

The biggest concern with home computers is how slow they get over time. You see and hear about this through ads, articles, web sites, your friends, ect. This is also one of the biggest reasons I have a client base for home repairs. I would say that 75% of the time someone calls me to come look at their computer, it is simply because it is going to slow for them.

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Here are some simple tools and tricks to keep your system running fast and fresh.

One of my favorite freeware companies is Piriform. They have 4 great programs available and they are all free. The two i will be talking about are, CCleaner, and Defraggler.

CCleaner:
This is an amazing little program that can easily clean out junk files that are clogging and slowing your system. It also has a nice registry clean up, uninstall programs, and start up programs sections.

The junk file cleaner can be customized to keep files you may want, like cookies for logins, or temp files for certain programs.

The registry cleaner is very easy to use and allows you to save a back up prior to cleaning it up. This has never failed me or caused any issues to my computer.

The start up programs section is great to tell windows what it should and should not start automatically on system start. These programs can stack up over time causing reboots to go very slowly.

The uninstall programs sections is similar to the built in Windows add/remove options. Just click a program and click uninstall. You should always remove programs that you no longer use or that are simply useless to you.

Defraggler:
This is a nice de-frag program that is similar to the built in Windows tool. It will analyze your drives for fragments, allow you to search the various sections, and even list the files in certain parts of your hard drive. There are full defrag and quick options, for thorough or fast simple defragging.

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I usually run CCleaner once every couple weeks for cleaning junk files. And about the same time span for the registry cleaner. Always make a back up of the registry when it asks you too, just to be safe.

Defraggler is run about once a month, this more depends on how much you use the computer. If a computer is very active then it is more likely to have more fragmenting and should be defragged more often.

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With some older computers the Windows Animations and visual effect can slow it down a bit. To fix this a bit and hopefully gain a bit more performance try this…

On Windows XP: Go to System Properties in the Control Panel. Click ‘Advanced’, then ‘Performance’ and click ‘Adjust for best performance’.

On Windows vista and 7: Click “Start”, then in the search box type, “Performance” then click “Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows” then click ‘Adjust for best performance’.

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Always make sure to run anti-virus and anti-malware/spyware programs at least once every 2 weeks or so.

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Most of the time a computer running slow is simply because of bad or no maintenance on it. Keeping up with this stuff is similar to changing the oil in your car, if you don’t it will get thick and your car will become sluggish or worse. The same goes for your computer, if it is constantly packed with junk files and useless programs it will become sluggish or worse.

Seems this is a common problem with the latest patches. I’ve also seen it happen after a BIOS upgrade.

Boot into Debug mode or Service Console Only mode (SCO is faster). After logging in, run:

• “esxcfg-boot -p” – to reload the PCI data
• “esxcfg-boot -r” – to refresh initrd information
• “esxcfg-boot -b” – to setup boot information

Reboot!

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

This method is no longer needed. Install SD as normal, and drop the latest service pack jar file into “installation path\Hewlett-Packard\OpenView\service desk 4.5\client\lib” and start the client.

The issue with HP Service Desk 4.5 on Windows 7 has been an irritating one but we have a solution!

1. Install the MSJava SD requires.
2. Make sure your Sun Java is up to date.
3. Install the Service Desk client.
4. Run regedit.
5. Search the registry for all occurrences of msado15.dll. You will find that the keys contain %CommonProgramFiles%
6. Replace all occurences of %CommonProgramFiles% with C:Program FilesCommon Files (2 keys will fail, that’s ok)
7. Open a command prompt with elevated privileges.
8. Enter (without quotes) “regsvr32.exe C:Program FilesCommon FilesSystemadomsado15.dll”

64bit! (Thanks Clemens!)

1. Run regedit.
2. Search the registry for all occurrences of msado15.dll. You will find that the keys contain %CommonProgramFiles%
3. Replace all occurences of %CommonProgramFiles% with C:Program Files (x86)Common Files (2 keys will fail, that’s ok)
4. Open a command prompt with elevated privileges.
5. Enter (without quotes) “regsvr32.exe C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesSystemadomsado15.dll”

Because SD wants to use the 32 bit dll you need to point to the “Program Files (x86)” folder instead of the “Program Files” folder.

Run the client and configure your connection!

The command to run is:

vicfg-snmp.pl –server ESXiServer -c Community1,Community2 -p 161 -t trap1ipaddress@161/trapcommunityname,trap2ipaddress@161/trapcommunityname,trap3ipaddress@161/trapcommunityname

You will then be prompted for your admin user and pass on the remote system.

One issue when taking advantage of ESXi’s small footprint with USB keys or SD cards is the lack of storage area for syslogs. Unless you are running a centralized syslog for your ESXi hosts, you will need to specify local syslogs. This is easily done.

1. Log into vCenter/ESXi host with the vCenter client.

2. Select the Configuration tab for the host.

3. Choose Advanced Settings.

4. Select Syslog from the tree on the left.

5. Syslog.Local.Datastore.Path – Enter the path to a datastore you wish to use for syslogs. We use a dedicated one at 200GB. Keep in mind the datastore needs to be kept in brackets. Example: [datastorename]/syslogs/hostname.log

With the path above you will find the syslogs by hostname in a syslogs folder on the datastore. You will need to create the folder ahead of time.

The script below will do it by cluster, and is significantly faster. This way it only looks for datastores that are not already set to round robin. The previous script sets everything even if it was already set.

Connect-VIServer vCenterServer

get-cluster “Cluster Name” | Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk | Where-Object {$_.MultipathPolicy -ne “RoundRobin”} | Set-ScsiLun -MultipathPolicy “RoundRobin”

Old Way:

Connect-VIServer vCenterServer

foreach ($hostx in get-vmhost) {

$hostview = Get-View $hostx
$storageSystem = Get-View $hostview.ConfigManager.StorageSystem
$policy = new-object VMware.Vim.HostMultipathInfoLogicalUnitPolicy

#$policy.policy = “VMW_PSP_MRU”
$policy.policy = “VMW_PSP_RR”

$storageSystem.StorageDeviceInfo.MultipathInfo.lun | foreach { $storageSystem.SetMultipathLunPolicy($_.ID, $policy) }
}